OLD NEWS: Little Rock turns ... World heavyweight champ Jack Dempsey (left) and Tom Gibbons squared off in Shelby, Mont., on July 4, 1923. From the July 1, 1923, Arkansas Gazette (Democrat-Gazette ...

Jack Dempsey was boxing’s first superstar. ... He married a Hollywood actress in the golden age of silent movies and opened a restaurant opposite the old Madison Square Garden .

The 30-year-old Rozicki became obsessed with Dempsey as a teenager. Dempsey’s violent stoppage of the enormous Jess Willard on YouTube is ingrained in Rozicki’s head.

One hundred years later, the Jack Dempsey-Luis Angel Firpo fight remains a classic. On Sept. 14, 1923, at the Polo Grounds, ... a housing complex at the site of the old Polo Grounds. ...

1921: The Jack Dempsey-Georges Carpentier heavyweight match at Rickard’s Orchard in Jersey City, N.J., becomes the first million-dollar gate in boxing history. The receipts total $1,789,238 with ...